Anyone seen this error?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:49:54 -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> I recently received a bug report that one of my packages (in devel) 
> fails when built in mock with the following error:
> 
> error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>    /usr/share/info/dir
> 
> I was able to duplicate this in a mock build, but here's what I don't 
> understand: after the build failure, I don't see a "dir" file in 
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/info . Furthermore, if I try the same build on 
> a (mostly) up to date devel system, the build completes without any 
> problems. Why? In looking at other packages that I maintain, one that 
> was formerly in core has the line
> 
> rm -f ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_infodir}/dir
> 
> in the %install section.

When building as "root", the "dir" file is created. Else, not.